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  1. Arsenios

    Can demons be saved if they repent?

    The Church teaches that demons are now incapable of repentance... To which I might add that if you do not repent now... You will also at some grave point... _______________________ (fill in the blank) Arsenios
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    concupiscentia

    Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this manner death also entered into all men, for which cause all have sinned— True of Adam, for it was the sin of Adam that brought death to all men... But not true for all men after Adam...
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    Buying intellectual work - is it a sin?

    Ego is always heavy to carry... Toilsome to maintain... Laborious to build... Some make a lot of money - But never enough - And get suicidal when they have all the money and find their ego is still not Joy... So just let me find someone who has created a really nice novel or spy thriller...
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    Buying intellectual work - is it a sin?

    Ego is always burdensome... Arsenios
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    Man A Triune Being

    I second that... The person [hypostasis] has a soul... The heart of the person [his center] is his spirit... Purification of the heart is the path of discipleship... Subjecting the soul to denial of self... That God unite with her... There is, iow, a distinction between heart and soul...
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    What is DISCIPLING?

    Here is the word commonly translated as "observe": τηρεῖν Here is its meaning: Primary: to attend to carefully, take care of a) to guard b) metaph. to keep, (one in the state in which he is) c) to observe Now I can see ALL of those meanings having application here... But what it seems to me...
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    Ecc 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Ecc 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any...
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    What is DISCIPLING?

    Well, going with that, what then does discipling look like? Is conversion a part of discipling? What does it mean to "carefully observe" [all that I have commanded you]? Arsenios
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    What is DISCIPLING?

    Not only what is it but what is it for? And who is to do it? And what does it disciple? Is discipling mere teaching from the lectern? Is it sermonizing from the pulpit? What does Christ mean when He is recorded saying to the Apostles: "Go - Disciple all the Nations... Teaching them to...
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    If the spirit returns to God, what is the human hypostasis and where does it go? Arsenios
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    Does prayer change things or does it only change us?

    Well, three relationships are involved: One's relationship with God... One's relationship with Neighbor... One's relationship with demonic rulership in this fallen creation... We can add that one's relationship with one's self, IF it is Christian, is a relationship of DENIAL, yes?? Arsenios
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    MATTHEW 12:16 SHOULD NOT MAKE HIM KNOWN

    The deeper I get in this Christian walk, the more and more convinced I become that Christianity is very much, from top to bottom, an undercover operation of God behind enemy lines coming visible only occasionally... Arsenios
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    PERFECT LOVE

    We call that the Great Ektenia [=holding forth] of the Church praying for the world... There is also the Small Litany [ektenia]... I am glad it is still being prayed in the Latin Church... Are these chants sung in the 8 tones? Or have they been dropped? Our Chanter, the Proto-Psalter...
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    PERFECT LOVE

    That is right - Sorry... We affirm that their sins are their struggle, and that this life is struggle and suffering and ends in death... That we cannot judge them because we do not know the great struggle they are engaging... And we do not know the condition in that struggle of their heart...
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    Body to dirt... Soul to heaven or hell... Spirit to ??? Arsenios
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    Experiment.

    Working backward toward loving your enemies, this is a figure in pre-Incarnational time of the assault one must needs take up in post-Incarnatinal on the world to overcome it - eg to take nothing from it whatsoever, even what seems useful... The Jews, also in a figure, in that cast took some...
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    Experiment.

    So do you support Trump's attack on the Democrats wanting to make it legal to kill babies after they survive late term abortions and are viable? Whoops! Wrong forum! :):) Children ARE discipled by their parents... No matter what that discipleship turns out to be... So that the killing of...
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    Experiment.

    Glory to God! I mean, you ARE, after all, a HARD case! Isn't it past your bedtime? :) Arsenios
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    We are asleep from this earth through our body when we die... Death is separation of soul from body... Discipleship is attaining that separation prior to death through being Baptized into Christ, into Christ's Death on the Cross... Baptism is our initiation into Life in Christ through His...
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    What happens between death and the resurrection?

    No need... This is why "Doctrinal Correctness" is far less important than condition of heart... Arsenios
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